Online Composite Material Training Course

About The Course

4 lectures of 1.5 hours duration course (6 hours in total) are proposed and will provide an introduction of composites. It will describe the basic functionalities of composites, the various engineering processes used to design, analysis, manufacture, and test them. It will go on presenting the current methods of design and analysis of composite structures. The course will provide throughout the course detailed examples of case studies that have reached the industry to illustrate the challenges that were overcome for successful design of advanced composite structures.

Who Should Attend?

The course is intended for Engineers, Operations’ managers, Applied Scientists and Technologists interested in design of lightweight composite material & structure. Engineers, managers and scientists involved in design, assessment and management of a wide range of engineering structures will also benefit from this course.

PROGRAMME (All timings are in BST(GMT+1))

09.00 – 10.30 Lecture 1: Introduction to composite materials

• Mechanical properties
• Lightweight design
• Manufacturing
• Applications
• Composite manufacturing video
Dr Mohammad Fotouhi

10.30 –10..45 Break

10.45 – 12.15 Lecture 2: Composite Design

• Rule of Mixtures
• Hart-Smith (10% Rule)
• Classical Laminate Analysis
Dr Mohammad Fotouhi

12.15 – 13.30 Break

13.30 – 15.00 Lecture 3: Failure of composite materials

• Intera-laminar failure modes
• Inter-laminar failure modes – Delamination
• Failure theories
• Impact, buckling and fatigue damage of composites
Dr Mohammad Fotouhi

15.00 – 15.30 Break

15.30 – 17.00 Lecture 4: Composite I-Beams,Sandwich Structures, Joining and
Machining

• I-Beams, Sandwich Structures
• The joining of composites
• Machining and Drilling of Composites
• Monolithic Composite Structures
Dr Mohammad Fotouhi

Duration: 1 Day

Cost: £395 + Vat